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JOHN GUTTAG: Computational devices have become so pervasive that most of the time we don’t even realize that we’re using them. Computation keeps our planes in the air and our cars on the road. It manages our electrical, communications, and financial systems. It controls everything from homes to pacemakers. And most importantly, computation has changed

This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream. Hi, I’m Carrie Anne and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! So far, for most of this series, we’ve focused on hardware — the physical components of computing — things like: electricity and circuits, registers and RAM, ALUs and CPUs. But programming at the hardware level is cumbersome

– I’m Jasmine Lawrence and I’m a Program Manager on the Xbox One engineering team. One of our biggest features is called Xbox Live. It’s an online service that connects gamers from all around the world, and we rely on the internet to make that happen. This is no easy task and there are a

Hello. Are you on Tinder? Have you ever tried internet dating? If you have or if you are, good luck; and I mean that sincerely, but there’s going to be a lot of terms or things that you probably don’t know what they mean, and they’re kind of important. So, because of this new… well,

Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to Crash Course Computer Science! One of the most dramatic changes enabled by computing technology has been the creation and widespread availability of information. There are currently 1.3 billion websites on the internet. Wikipedia alone has five million English language articles, spanning everything from the Dancing Plague of 1518

Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! This 1960 PDP-1 is a great example of early computing with graphics. You can see a cabinet-sized computer on the left, an electromechanical teletype machine in the middle, and a round screen on the right. Note how they’re separated. That’s because text-based tasks and graphical

Hi, I’m Carrie Anne and welcome to Crash Course Computer Science! Today we start our journey up the ladder of abstraction, where we leave behind the simplicity of being able to see every switch and gear, but gain the ability to assemble increasingly complex systems. INTRO Last episode, we talked about how computers evolved from

(futuristic tones echo) – All right, it’s my favorite time of the day. Time to respond to some Above the Noise comments on YouTube, let’s see what the people are talking about. This channel is BS! You suck. Lame! Good Lord, you’re boring, bro? Ouch. People are mean. (upbeat instrumental music) Is that what they’re